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"Over and over I played her favorite Arvo Pärt, as a way of being with her; and she had only to mention recently read novel for me to grab it up hungrily, to be inside her thoughts, a sort of telepathy."
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"Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present."
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
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"Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi."
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"You totally love him. He's your widdle snookums."
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"Over and over I played her favorite Arvo Pärt, as a way of being with her; and she had only to mention recently read novel for me to grab it up hungrily, to be inside her thoughts, a sort of telepathy."
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"Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys, it's more sanitary."
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"So what should we do with our last few days?"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you, Peete replies."Come on, then, I say, pulling him into my room.It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn't realize until now how starved I've been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness."
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"And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me."
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"Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place."
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"To a woman sexual intimacy is more a tool to get mentally close to her partner than merely a means to physical pleasure."
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"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
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"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."
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"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"
Courage


"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
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"Over and over I played her favorite Arvo Pärt, as a way of being with her; and she had only to mention recently read novel for me to grab it up hungrily, to be inside her thoughts, a sort of telepathy."
Affection


"I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was."
Solitude


"But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying "Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. "Um, I can't find the can opener. "Apparently. "There's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight. "Apparently. "Look, sparks are coming out of the wall socket. "Apparently."
Communication


"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."
Time


"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."
Recognition


"Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still."
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